Gathered officials call for more regional coordination.
Regional transportation officials gathered Monday to find new ways to deliver projects as budgets shrink and state government turns to decentralized planning.
The basis of the meeting was a five-month study of the Charlotte region’s five transportation planning groups and similar organizations elsewhere. Centralina Council of Governments and the N.C. […]
WASHINGTON — Cities are bracing to lose millions of dollars in funding for transportation and community projects, from subway lines to youth centers, because of a renewed push in Congress to ban lawmaker-directed spending known as “earmarks.”
With the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives committed to ending the practice and the Senate facing […]
ASHEVILLE — A capacity audience Wednesday urged the North Carolina General Assembly to raise the age at which children can be tried as adults in the state.
Youths who are 16 and 17 years old are currently charged as adults in the state. The law is different than all the states that surround North Carolina. In […]
RALEIGH – The classic spy show Mission: Impossible was exciting, excellent – and misnamed.
At the beginning of each episode, the Jim Phelps character played by Peter Graves would receive a recording that laid out a seemingly impossible mission. After the tape famously self-destructed within five seconds, Phelps and his team would then show that the […]
A new Public Policy Polling survey shows considerable support for having an independent redistricting commission to redraw North Carolina’s political maps next year. A plurality even would support calling a special legislative session to set up such a commission.
However, Republican legislative leaders who had supported setting up an independent redistricting commission to redraw political maps […]
About two months away from the next state legislative session, lobbying has begun.
Last week, Wilmington City Council endorsed an aggressive wish list for the 2011 General Assembly which includes protecting the city’s annexation powers, enhancing the state’s film industry incentives and funding the Cape Fear Skyway project.
All three topics are expected to receive attention when […]
Monday night I (Cary Mayor Weinbrecht) attended the Mayors Association meeting. This meeting marked the completion of my term as President. The President set the agenda and guests for the meetings. One accomplishment I am proud of in my term was the first meeting of the Wake County School Board and the Wake County Mayors. […]
Tax reform is headed to the back burner again in North Carolina, despite new management at the General Assembly.
Corporate chiefs, social advocates and politicians on both sides of the political aisle have argued for a generation the state’s tax system is outdated because it reflects a manufacturing economy of textiles, tobacco and furniture. They’ve pleaded […]
The city of Hickory, N.C., where the unemployment rate soared from 2% to 16% during the recession, is repaving fewer streets, slashing dozens of city jobs, reducing library hours and closing two community pools. City workers haven’t gotten raises in two years, and the city has postponed development of some parks.
“We’re saying no to services […]
The gentleman from Greenville (let’s call him Mr. B) was direct and to the point: “I hope this is not a political nothing.”
His was one of more than 600 responses received the first week at www.setgovernmentstraight.nc.gov, the website devoted to bringing common sense back to the rules and regulations that pepper North Carolina state government. […]
